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Question 1021963: A stack of 4 cans is 30 inches tall. What is the height of each can?
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Question 1021970: If a 12 pack of pencils weigh 84 grams how much does each pencil weigh ?
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Question 1021970: If a 12 pack of pencils weigh 84 grams how much does each pencil weigh ?
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Question 1022030: The volume of a solid scale model of the Telstra tower is 70 cubic cm. The scale is 1:100. What volume of metal in cubic meters would be required to build the tower? If it required 30mL of paint to coat the model, how many litres of paint would be required to coat the tower?
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Question 1022084: What two numbers have a sum of 123 and a difference of 7?
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Question 1022039: A store purchased an iron bench and marked it up 20% from the original cost of $75. Then, wanting to make room for summer inventory, the store placed the bench on sale for 20% off. What was the price after the discount?
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Question 1022153: determine the constant x^2+(4/9)x
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Question 1022153: determine the constant x^2+(4/9)x
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Question 1022166: 'I have a number of cupcakes. I can pack them in boxes which contain four cakes, three cakes or eight cakes.
In each case I will fill all of the boxes with none left over. What is the least number of cupcakes I could have?'

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Question 1022197: I have following question.
You went to the carnival and it cost you $16 for 6 rides. Your friend went on 15 rides and it cost him $28 dollars. Tell me about the pricing. Please us Math.
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Question 1022203: A teacher gave students five questions and wrote the she would randomly choose one of the five questions for an exam. If Harry prepared for only one of the questions, what is the probability that he did not study for the question that the teacher put on the exam?
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Question 1022201: A teacher gave students five questions and wrote that she would randomly choose one of the five questions for an exam. If Harry prepared for only one question. What is probability that he did not study for the question that the teacher put on the exam?
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Question 1022243: How to find sum of all the odd number between 50 to 200? I know about first odd number.
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Question 1022299: Hi
need your help here.a pool is rectangular in shape. 25m long 10m wide depth 1.5m.find the surface area.
now I found it to be 605 square meters textbook says 355 square meters.
Thanks
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Question 1022328: A jeweler maker has 20 ounces of a gold alloy worth $160 an ounce and 10 ounce of a silver alloy worth $140 an ounce. How many ounces of another alloy at $124 an ounce must she add to these in order to have a mixture of the three that she can use to make 3-ounce jewelry worth $438 a piece?
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Question 1022361: Jason's class is having a car wash to raise money for a project. They are charging $5 to wash a car. Write and Solve an inequality to find how many cars must be washed to raise $120.
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Question 1022342: Suppose a standard six-sided die is rolled and you receive $0.50 for every dot showing on the top of the die. What should be the cost of playing the game be in order to make it a fair game?
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Question 1022348: In physics, Boyle's law for expansion of air at a constant temperature is given by the equation: PV^1.4 = C
P = pressure
V= volume
C= a constant
At a certain instant, the pressure of air in a container is 33.36 pounds per square inch and C = 12,600. Find the volume of the air V at that moment (including units).
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Question 1022436: Please solve this equation:The membership fee of a club varies inversely with the number of members.When there are 80 members the fee is #490.What is the fee when there are 56 members
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Question 1022430: Please solve this equation:The mass of rice that each woman gets when sharing a sack varies inversely with the number of women.When there are 20 women,each gets 6kg of rice.If there are nine women,how much does each get?
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Question 1022446: Andrea, a self-employed individual, wishes to accumulate a retirement fund of $750,000. How much should she deposit each month into her retirement account, which pays interest at a rate of 3.5%/year compounded monthly, to reach her goal upon retirement 35 years from now? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 1022522: Davis Truck Rentals will rent a moving van for $15.75/day plus $0.35/mile. Bertz Van Rentals will rent the same van for $25/day plus $0.30/mile. How many miles m must the van be driven to make the cost at Bertz a better deal?
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Question 1022523: When deep-sea fishing, the optimal depths d (in feet) for catching a certain type of fish satisfy the inequality 28|d−350|−1,400<0. Find the range of depths that offer the best fishing. Answer using simple inequalities.
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Question 1022673: Bethany is working her way through school. She works two part-time jobs for a total of 27 hours a week. Job A pays $5.70 per hour, and Job B pays $6.70 per hour. How many hours did she work at each job the week that she made $162.90.
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Question 1022682: ) A map is drawn to a scale of 1 : 50 000.
An airport runway is represented on the map by a line.
The actual length of the runway is 3 km.
What is the length, in cm, of the runway on the map?
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Question 1022818: There are 132 queations on the test.You can put 3 questions on each page.If it takes 7 minutes to finish each page,how long will it take to finish the test?
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Question 1022784: Every 5th customer gets a free drink, every 6th customer gets free chips and every 10th customer gets a free sandwich - how many customers will it take to come in the shop until one Customer gets all three
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Question 1022753: The national average salary for a computer consultant is $53,336. For a large computer firm, the salaries offered to their employees vary by no more than $11,994 from this national average. Find the range of salaries offered by this company.
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Question 1022908: The length and breadth of a playground are 52.60m and 35.40m respectively. Find the cost of turfing it at 3.50rs per sq.m.. How long will a man take to go twice round the field, if he walks at the rate of 2m per second
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Question 1022924: A room is in the shape of a rectangular prism length 4.52m width 2.41m height 2.96m. The room has
2 windows and a door that have a combined area of 5.52m. Calculate the area of the internal walls that need to be painted.
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Question 1022946: A Boxerville Express commuter train leaves the station every 30 minutes. When Theo arrives at the station, a woman tells him she has been there for 10 minutes and that she just missed the last train. If the variable t stands for the amount of time Theo will have to wait, which of the following choices is the most reasonable value for t?

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Question 1022929: The teacher said I wish yesterday was tomorrow because today would be friday. On what day did the teacher said this?
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Question 1023068: use the 4 step method and 2 variables
If 10 pens and 15 pads of paper cost $26, and 5 pens and 10 pads cost $16, find the cost of a pen and a pad.
x=pen y=pad
10x + 15y =$26
5x + 10y =$16
-2(5x+10y=16)
-10x+-20y=-32
10x+15y=26
-10x+-20y=-32
-5y=-6
-5y=-5
y=6/5
5x+10(6/5)=16 5goes into 10 2times
5x+2*6=16
5x+12=16
5x-12=-12
5x=4
5 5
x=4/5
I come up with fractions this does not seem right.
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Question 1023142: a fruit seller bought some watermelons at $8 each.Out of these 5 were broken.He sold the remaining at $15 each and made a gain of $275.How many watermelons did he buy.
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Question 1023186: A glass jar has a height of 5 inches and a radius of 2.5 Vanessa wants to fill the jar with beads that cost $0.12 per cubic inch how much will it cost for her to fill the jar ?
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Question 1023200: Fred is a long distance runner. He runs 2 mph faster than his video-game playing neighbor Joe. If they each run 12 mi, Fred finishes 30 min ahead of Joe. Determine how fast each person runs.
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Question 1023161: In Quadrilateral ABCD shown below, AB = CD.
If ABCD is a parallelogram, what is the length, in units, of BC?

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Question 1023161: In Quadrilateral ABCD shown below, AB = CD.
If ABCD is a parallelogram, what is the length, in units, of BC?

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Question 1023227: Benson and Jenson are twins born one minute apart. Benson celebrates his 3rd birthday anniversary on February 29, 2016, while Jenson has had 12 birthday anniversaries. What is the month, day, year and time of Jenson�s birth?

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Question 1023226: Leap years occur every four years, but sometimes a leap year is skipped. This is to offset the difference between the observed number of days and the tropical year, calculated in the previous problem, which will continue to increase over time, and to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons. The rule for whether a year is a leap year or not is that every year which is perfectly divisible by four is a leap year except for years that are divisible by 100 but not 400. How many years between now and the year 3000 inclusive will be skipped leap years?
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Question 1023225: It takes Earth approximately 365.2422 days to orbit the sun once, this is known as the tropical year and is the length of the cycle of seasons. In a regular year, there are 365 days, and in a leap year there are 366 days. In a four-year period, one year being a leap year, what is the absolute difference between the number of days observed in the calendar years and the number of days in four tropical years? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest ten-thousandth.
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Question 1023324: A train with 10 carriages completely passes an observer in 20 seconds.the carriage are each 16 meters long.how fast was the train going?
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Question 1023364: A plane flies roundtrip between Great Hall and Bradford. The trip is 450 miles each way. The trip with the wind (the wind going in the same direction) takes 4.5 hours, while the trip against the wind takes 5 hours. What is the speed of the plane in still air? What is the speed of the wind?
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